| In the Bragin District, instruments for measuring the background doses are available at the District Centre of Hygiene and Epidemiology (DCHE). Collective farm leaders, rural councils, schools, children's preschool institutions, primary health clinics, rural health precincts and rural outpatient clinics do not have instruments for measuring the background doses. Once a year, exposure dose power (EDP) and surface contamination measurements are made on the territory of the children's preschool institutions and in schools of the district. The DCHE has the so-called 'sanitary environmental certificates' of the surveyed facilities. Directors of schools and children's preschool institutions are kept informed about the background levels. According to the data of the Bragin DCHE, in 2001, the NPL was found to have been exceeded at the sports ground of the town of Bragin and in the primary school of the village of Soboli. In 2002, similar cases were detected in the children's preschool institutions of the village of Shkuraty and the children's preschool institution "Alesia" in the town of Bragin. The DCHE keeps data on soil contamination fed by the National Centre of Radiation Control and Environmental Monitoring. The Bragin DCHE verifies radiological quality of food products vis-a-vis Cs 137 in the public and private sectors. Similar functions are performed by the local centres of radiation control. Milk is examined twice a year under the DCHE system. Other products, like potato, other vegetables, mushrooms, berries, meat of game, potable water, bread and other products are examined once a year. Information about the results of food analysis is communicated from the DCHE to the rural council within 5 days. The rural councils inform owners of the products under analysis about their quality and display the results in local shops. Such information is provided to the District Executive Committee every 6 months. The district newspaper informs its readers about radiological quality of products 1-2 times a month. Specialists of the DCHE investigate NPL excesses in food products on the site on a case-by-case basis. No information about radiological quality of products is provided from local councils of radiation control to the DCHE. The Bragin District Executive Committee receives the results of analysis made by local centres of radiation control when it receives quarterly bulletins from the "Belrad" Institute. WBC population examination in the Bragin District The fixed WBC installation is out of order; a mobile installation is not available in the Bragin District. At the same time, all children and adults living in the area with caesium contamination over 10 Ci/km2 are subject to mandatory examination every year. When the fixed installation was operating, examinations were made for all those who applied for help to the district polyclinic, as well as inpatients, pregnant women, "childbirth reserve" group, high risk group. Examinations were also organized through the DCHE referral. The fixed installation was manufactured in 1990. The software used is not designed to keep the results in a computer database, therefore readings are available only in logs, clinical records and case histories. In 2000, 9,533 were examined. 23 persons were identified as having doses over 1 mSv (0.24%), all of them were adults. Occasional examinations of children are conducted by a mobile WBC installation of the "Belrad" Institute. Every three months, individual examinations are conducted (using personal dosimeters) among machine operators, cattle breeders, field workers (205 persons) in the rehabilitated areas (5 farms), in the village of Mikulichi and the town of Bragin. | 
